Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1877, Page 4

.4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1877, Thye Tatbrare, TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION, BY MAIL~~IN ADVANCE—TPOSTAGE TREPAID AT TINS OFFICT. 'arts Of A seat Malicd to ary Bundny ri-1eckdy, rorthaid, 1 arta of a year, per mont| WEERLY E Or.e copy, per ye Cinbof fen.., Club of twnnfy, Fostaxe prepaid. Epccimen coples rent frec. Toprerent delay and mistakes, be rurnand give Post Gf.ccaddrers fn full, Inclding Btate snd County, Hemittances may bomade either by draft, express, Tot-Ofice order, or fo registered lettors, at our ritk, . TERMS TO CITT SUBSCRINKRS, Telly, deltvered, Sunday exceptod, 23 cents per week. Ludly, delivered, Suniny Included, 30 cents per weak Adress THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Lorner Modison and Deatborn-sts., Chicago, fil —r———e—— TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY, Ro oms. Oceupants, 1. CNARTER OAR LIFE (lusarance Dep'ts) 2 T RENT. Z . GUSTIN & WALLACE. J,T. DALE. 4. DUEBER WATCI-CASE MAN'F'G CO, 5. NOBDINS & APPLETON. 6. TO JLENT, % LUEBKER & HUTCIINE, < 8. WM, C. DOW, A.J, BROWN, W. ROBBINS. 9. WRIOIT & TTIRELL. 10 CHARTER DAK LIFE (Lotn Dep't.) 11-13, FAIRCHILD & DLACKN AN, 1¢-15, JAMES MORGAN. R, W. BRIDGE. 10 HEXRY E. SBRELVE. W, D. COOPKB. 17. M. D. IARDIN, 18-19. D. K. PEARSONS & CO. 20. KUTCHINSON & LUFF. 2. 0. L. DASKIN & €O, 22 ABSOCIATE EDITOI. 23, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. 24. MANAGING EDITOR. 25, ASSOCIATE EDITOIS. 2. L, C. EARLE. 27. W, J, BARNEY & CO. 28 WILLIAM BROSS, 29, If, F. NORCROSS. J. A. McRLDOWKRY. 20, REDPATH LYCEUM DUREAU, 31. COMMEREIAL EDITOR. 32, W, W. DEXTER. 3. GEO. L. THATCHER. A, P, STEVENSON. 5, NIGHT EDITOR. 36. CITY EDITOR. Offices {o the Bulldtng to rent by W. C» DOW, Room 8, AMUSEMENTS. New Chicago Theatre, CIark street, between Lake and Randolph, Emerson's Minstrels, MecCormlicic Hall, North Clark street, corner Kinzle, Concers by Annie ZLoutse Cary. Muscum. Monroe street, between Stato and Dearbora, Vaude- ville and novelty, 5 NMeVicker’s Theatres Muadison strcet, between Dearborn and Btate. *Qur Boys,*" Pt Haverly’s “gllrkl- Tandolph strect, between Clar! (!3 mm’en( of tho Fifth Avenue Compsny. s el Adelphl Theatre, Monroe street, corner Dearbo SOCIETY MEETINGS, J. .. DUNLOP, RMecorder, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1877, CHICAGO MAREET BUMMARY. ‘ Tho Chicago produce markets were moderstely active on Haturday, provisions, wheat, and corn, being eatier, dless pork closed 2%c per brl , ot 813,8214@13.85 for April and $14.00 L0415 for May. Lard closed unchanged, at $2.271% tor April and $0.40 for May. Meata were stendy, closlng st 4%c for looso ahoulders, 734c for o ahort ribs, nnd 74jc for short clears, Highwines wveere quist, at $1.05 per pallon, Flonr was quiet nnd steady, Wheat closed $5¢ lower, at $1.25% for Aprilund 31,501 forMay. Corn closed %c lower,at Butc tor April and 413 for May, Oats closed K9 !ic higher, ot 31c for April and 34%a for May. Rye was Srince, at 05@67¢. Barloy closed firm, &t 50c for April. Hogw wero in light supply and B@10¢ per 100 1ba highor, at §5.25@3.80. Cattle were quiet and steady, ot $3.50@05.75. Sheep were firm, ot $3.50Q08.00. One hundred dollars i1 gold would buy $105.00 in greenbacks at the cluse, Groenbacks were quoted at 06} in New York on Baturday. Easter services in the various churches in Chicago yesterday were' colobrated with un. usunl interest, Beautiful floral decorations, Joyons music, and services sultable to the Church's great fenst-dsy, were the general observances throughout the o'ty. ‘The rumor of a terrible catastrophe is - among the cable dispatchen this morning. It was reported in Parla last ovening that tho roof of tho Mont Conis tunnel had fallen in, burying two passenger-trains. It the nows is true, thero is scarcely the shodow of & possibllity that one person -umong the large number on boord thoe two traing will be roscnod alive, —s Tho Presidential law-suit is yet within the bounds of the probable, Mr, Trox issaid to bo as fully determined ns over upon teat~ ing hls legal titlo to the groat office, and the pepers in the guo warranto proceeding are all roady preparcd and in tho hands of Mr, Mennick, to bo filed in the United Statcs District Court at Washington 8s soon as the Bouth Carolina difficulty {s settled, —— There is no comfort for the Whisky. Ring thieves in the now Administration, To all the pressuro for a discontinuance of tho civil suits ogainst the convicted and pardoned riogslers, Becretary BugsumaN ro. turus but one answor; ‘‘Let the prosecu- tion proceed with all possible vigor in all cases.” Bomo of tho law.officers of the Government who have mauifested a tend. ency to ‘““buckle” in the vicinity of the spine will it they arc wise perceive tho drift of affairs at Washington and ‘‘ braco up” accordingly. It iu the Cily Council who have to decide whether the aonual tax-levy for current ex+ penditures shall be three, five, or seven wiillions of dollars, In voting for Aldermen, this should be borue in mind. The in- dividual who secks t3 bo elected Alderman, kuowing hisunfitness, his want of experience, wud- meroly to promote his own interosts, oy Lo certainly counted upon as one who will vote forthe largeat expenditures. Such uien ought not be elected at any thme, and they ore more particularly objectionable under the present financial circumstances of tho city. ‘I'ue Toisuxe s now prepared to renew its apology and retraction in r¢ Apyes Tayron t4. Evening Journal, and in bebalf of the party of the socond part to take it all back,— in fact, more than all. We haveall along believed that Mr. Tavion was too good & Republican and too public-spirited and patri. oliv a gentleman to contentedly occupy the sttitude in which Lie was placed by sccepting the Tudependent uomination for Msyor,— that of imperiling the success of the regular Republicas ticket in & Lattlesgainst the buwn- twers aud plunderens. Wo predictedthatwhen Bir, Tayron calnly considered that his own election was a forogone impossibility, and thiat, in effect, every vote cast for bim wesa Vot cast fur the restoration of thewao! corruption and extravegance, for the success of the tax-eating and tax.grabbing element, which no man hates and despisos moro cor- dially than he,—we predicted that whon Mr, Tarror came to sea all this, he wonld with. draw his aeceptance of the Indepondentnom. ination for the Mayoralty, and leave theissue strictly betweon good government and bad government, between Monnos Hrpata and Peany H. 8urrn. Tho retiromont of Mr. ‘TaTzoR simplifies the contest, and, a8 we be- liove, renders Hratn's election a matter of certainty, provided the voters who desire this result go ta tho polis and help to securo it. —ee 1If thére wera two or three more Ropublic- an candidates running for Alderman in the Becond Ward, Cravors's clection would be certain, As it is, that individual thinks that the two who are opposing him aro quita suf- ficient to leavo no doubt as to his election, In fact, ho elaims that, by having two candi- dates, the Republicans of that ward desiro his cleolion and ara laboring to that end. Is there no way in which the roputable voters of all parties in the Sccond Ward can be brought to unite on one eandidate, and thus defeat tho man who is nominally the Demo- cratic candidate, but who is ropudiated by & large portion of the voters of that pariy? The New York T'ridune, in discussing the proposition of the coal companies to patch up the broken combination, points out its folly by showing that the consumption of bituminous coal, which cannot be monop- olized, has steadily inorensed ever since tho combination was formed. The quantity of anthracite coal marketed in 1873 was 22,880, 021 tous, After tho combinalion was formod, tho amount steadily diminished year by year, until last yenr it was less than 10,000,000 tons, and this year the prices show that the diminution continues, Tle revival of the combination, theroforo, ns shown by expe- rienco, would only tond to increase the cost of production and reduce consumption still further. A Philadelphia journal says that the monoy which was devoted last winter to tho sup- port by charity of the 50,000 Inborers out of employment in New York City ought to have boon used in buying tickets for them to go West and Bouth. Thore is no economy in that, or bumanity either. The West is crammed foll of the same kind of unfortu- nates,—people who make hay while the sun shines, laying up nothing for a rainy dny, and living like rich peoplo until winter comes, when they starve. The South cor- tainly does mot want them, for it is poor unto starvation. The best way to obviate this dificulty is to teach tho masses econo- my. Let them learn to emulate tho French, who can grow rich on an income of a few sous a day, who sing or whistle while they work, and who know the secret of saving, and use it. Our poor apo tho rich partly because this is a freo country, parily because they think they feel better for it. In the end there is always a bad winter. Tho election to-morrow will decide for two years to como the character of tho City Government. The Government clectod last year reduced taxation 22,000,000 for the cur- rent year, Bhall that reduction be continued for 1878 and 1870, or shall the tax-levy ba restored to what it was last year and the years boforo? The answer to this question depends not only upon whether Hzatn be clocted over Saarm, but whether proper, re- spactablo mon bo clected to the Couneil. 1t will not bo sufficient to elect IHzati unless thero be also clected n majority of reputable pervons in the Board of Aldermenm, That Board controls the expenditures. We trust that no friend of good governmont wii neg- lact to vote for the most reputable candidite for Alderman, Politics aro not as important s capacity and integrity. Our advice to all persons is, it the opposing party las the best mon in nomination for Alderman, voto for tLat man and elect him. Ho is the best Ropublican and the best Democrat who will make tho best Aldennan, Tho renl isaue of to-morrow's election is 80 simple and cloar that he who runs may read. Tho city laxes, prior to the election of Maoyor Hyarn and the present City Gov- ernmeont, wero at the rate of $6,000,000 a year. Mayor Heatn and the present City Government have introduced such rotrench- ment as to bring down the taxes for this yoar to $4,000,000. - In other words, Mayor Hearnt® and tho presont Oity Government bave saved tho taxpayers $2,000,000, and overy man's city taxes for the yoar 1877 will be one-third leas than for the preceding year. The Ropublicans have renomivated Mayor Hzatz, tho pregent City Government, and s list of Aldermen who will continue this pol. icy. ‘The Democrats have nominated a city tickot backed by the same people whoran up clty taxes to $6,000,000ayesr, and alist of Al- dermon roady and eager to rovive the old system of cxtravagance and plunder. This 18 tlo {usue, in whioh every taxpayor is nter. eated, whether e paya 85 or $5,000 a year, o8 well 88 evory man who is furnished with employment by taxpayera. It will not bo surprising if two important episodes in the ndjustmont of the complica- tions in South Carolina and Louisiana should ocour on the same day-—to-morrow, whon it is expooted that the order will be issued for the withdrawal of the troops from the State. Houso in Columbia, and the Loulsiana Com- mission will proceed ‘to New Orleans, 'Tho caso of South Caroliua being thus practically decided in accordance with the President's platform of non.interference, it remainsto ba scen whether tho application of the same policy will solve the Louisiana muddle, And - this is what the Commission will try o nacertaiu. Its duties are strictly advisory, aud its instructions aro be. lieved to contemplate no authorized attewnpt to cffect n compromise: betweeu Nicuorrs and Packiuo, Tho Democrats thewselves nre beginoing to vecognize the wisdom and consistency of this course, and to recant their Lsaty conclasion that the President had _relaxed his irm grasp of the Bonthern ques- tion, and yieldod to the pressuro of poli. ticians opposed to the withdrawal of Federal intervontion, Col. McCrrnr, editor of the Philadelphia Z'fmes, Democratic, writes from Washivgton to his paper that it and other journaly hinvo dono fnjustics totho Preaident, and expresses the belief that the latter bas neither paused nor swerved from the ezecu. tion of the policy marked out ju the letter of sccoptance and the jnaugural address, The 8t Potersburg Vedomost!, which is ohe of tho leading organs of Russian opip- fon, in an articlo upon the policy of Ger. many towards Russia, denles the statements of the Austrian and French press that Bie. yAxck is drawing Russia into a Turkish war for the purpose of weakeuing her. It ar. gues with considerablo force that the great work of Biemaxck fs the consolidstion of Germavy uuder the leadership of Prussia, aad tlat it will take ten years wore, t the very loast, to accomplish it. The chief ob- stacla in this way of the consolidation is the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which atill con- {rols considerable Gorman territory. To re- cover this territory is the height of Dis- wmancx's ambition ; but, argues the Vedomosti, Lo cannot recover it withoat maintaining the alltance with Russia, which alone can pro- tect Gorinany againat France when tho Gor- man armies aro ocenpied in the South, The Vedomosté sums up tho situation in tho fol- lowing langnage : Those politicians who allege that Bisxancx wiil not allow the Russiang to go to the Danube and the Dosphorns forget that he will not barthe way to ‘Constantinopls to any one who lcts him take Vienoa, . . . Thersisatthis momentbutone Etate {n Borope which conld help him to attaln the goal of his policy, and. that Is Ruesia.” Russin wronld haveno objection tothe amalgamation of Austrisn and Prusslan Germany; for she knows that German nnity must lezd toBlavonic naity. A tripla aillance of nationalities wonld then bLe fornied between Russia, 1taly, nnd Prussla. Asto France, she doesnot understand the doctrine of nationalities; Austris turns away from If, and England deteats it, fearing any polltical agglomer- satlon on the Continent a8 o source of possiblo hos- tility to herself, THE TOWN ELECTIONS, Taxpaying citizens should not forget -that the election of town officers in the three .| divisions of tho oity occurs to.morrow, as well a8 of the city officors, and that the votes for the former may be cast at tho samo precinots as the votes for the general city ticket. Tho change of tho law nuthorizing this will not defeat the renewed efforis of the bummers to get control of the asscss. mont and colloction of taxes, unless the tax. payers avall themselves of tho ndditional +facilities for casting their ballots that aro now provided. The election in the South Town is the most important of all, both Lecauss of the largo amount of porsonal tax to bo collected, ond because tho honest nud ecdnomical management of tho Inst year has saved up 823,000, which the bummers are as greedy to Iny hold of as a pack of swine would be in the vicinity of so much corn, Besides, Mixz Evaxs is still rotaining money, which le claims 88 commissions, that will not be, wrested from him by law if the bummors aro not defeated, bnt which he or his bondsmen will have to pay over if the taxpayers nre again successful. 'To give some idea of tho enormous growth of tax-caling in the South Town prior to the defeat of the ballot-box stuffers Inst yoar, wo havo collected a list of tho expenses for several yoars ¢ EXPENSES OF TOWN SUPERVISOR. COLLECTOR. From this it will be seen that thero has been an actual saving in expenses during the Inst year over tha year bofore as follows : Supervisot's oflica,. $ 2,450 Assessor's oflice, Collector's oftlc Total saving.., .. Now, the Republican ticket of the South Town is composed af gentlemen of charac. tor, who will discharge tho duties of the town officers this coming year at as low a cost to the taxpnyers as during the last year, whilo tho Democratio party puta forward a ticket confossedly in the intereat of the bum- mers, The ticket for every taxpayor, large and small, to vote is ns followa : Supercisor—E. 0. Masox. Assessor—VW, 1L B, Gnar. Collector—B. G, Dovar, Clert—S1uros W. Kixa, In the West Town, the condition of things is not very different from that of the Houth Town, Tho taxpayers rallied last year and olocted their ticket, and thus saved thom. selves thousands of dollars. This year the bummers are again endoavoring to seiza tho offices as & means to plunder, but tho Re- publicans have nominated another taxpayers’ ticket, on which the two principal candi. dates—for Asscssor and Collector—are tho samo persons who sorved so efficlently last yoar, 'Tho taxpayers’ ticket in West Chicago is s follows: Superclsor~Jutivs PEDEDSEN. Assessor—Jaxgs N. CLank, Collector—Jonx Horyxax, Clerk—W, P, TannLx, In the North Divislon, the bummers in both parties have struck hands and aro run. ning n fusion ticket, madoup in part of Re- publicans and in part of Democrats, There nye several other tickets, wo believe, aud all in the interost of the bummers, except that running under the auspices of the Citizans' Union, ‘This nssociation protected tho tax- payers last year, and may be trusted for the samo work this year, Its ticket is as follows: Supersteor—P, Lorrcs. 1 Assaasor—=\Wittiax 3. Traeuan, Collector—Cunistiax TExFEL, Clerk—P. B, Lansxy, The election of the three town tickets we hiave Indicated will make a saving of ot least $60,000 this year to the taxpayers in the expenses of the town officors, and insure afull and impartinl assesament and collection of tho taxes; and in all three towns the bum. mers ere doing thelr utmost to defeat thém. AMERICAN LABOR AND EXPORTS. W print this morning an articls from the London Times, in which the future rivalry and competition of the manufactures of the United States with thoso of Grest Britain aro strongly suggested, The ressons for this compotition are frankly stated. England has hitherto produced the best, and France the most elegant, manufactures. The United States havo reached that polnt where their goods enter into competition ‘with "both French and British, The wealth of Great Britaln is in lLer commerco, and her com. merce is due (o her exchangs of commodi. ties. Bhe opens her ports to the nations of the whole world, and invites them freo of {ax or charge to bring their products, natural end manufactured, cforivg ttem o market whercin they can find everytbing they may veed in exchange. Her manufacturers Lave, {herefore, delivered nat their doors the raw wmaterjals for every descriplion of manufoctores, ond ot the lowest pos- sible cost, and purchasable with British manafactured goods, This is the great itemn iu her hitherto unrivaled success iu trade. Bhe purchases everythivg for which she can exchauge ber own wmanufactured goods. As the article in the Times suggests, the long course of prosperity has mado the capitalists of Great Britain, who owu and direct her fu- duatries, comparatively careless of the watch- fulness’in developing the' economy of pro- ductiou, and it {s this carelessness which now threatens their supremacy., In the United Btates, on the contrary, the grestest effort bas been mado in this pasticular; the nlicty and perfection of wmuchinery, and the cul- tured skill shown in oll the details of manag- iag production, bove sircady euabled the American manufacturers to place on the worket fubrics equal in all respects, superior in some, and At n cost which places them in direot competition with English goods. The rosults of the compotitive exhibition nt Phil- ndelphin are held up as warnings to the Bnt- jsh producers that for the future they wiil have to meot the general competition of tho United States. How are tho United Btaten prepared for this competition? They hiave in all paris of the country inexhaustible supplics of cheap fuel ; they have iron of A qualily andin qnanlity unequaled by any nation on the globe, They have every description of ma- {ollic deposit. They Lave cheap food for Iabor, and a completo system of transporta. tion over the whole surfaco of the country, They havo water power in every section, and are aided in nataral productions by every de- gros of climato in the temperate zone. In tho great staple of colton they have almost & monopoly. Inall lines of mavufactnre they Linve the raw materlals at their door, lacking fowor to goneral production than any other country. They want certain varietics of wool which are essential to mix with their own; they want cerlain dyes, bleaching powders, and chemicals; they want small quantitiea of Bwedish andyScoteh pig iron to wmix with the American; they want one or two varicties of peouliarly fine leathers, and o fow other nrticles, not to take the place of American mntorials, but to increase the con- sumption of thesa by the manufacturo of goods,—as, for instance, of bLroadcloths, for which American wools are mot nlone sufficient, If the American manufacturers hind these raw materinls froo of tax as tho British have, the general superiority of me- chanfenl skill ond porfection of American machinery would enable them, as tho Lon- don %mes suggests, to become the succesa- ful competitorgof the British in the wholo rango of manufactures in oll the markets of thoe world, Geographically, the United States have great natursl advantnges fora large foreign trade in manufactures.” We linvo the nelghboring tates of Mexico, Do- minfon of Canada, and the West India Isl- ands, all large consumors of British mer- chandise, Wo nen In closo proximity to the whole of South America. Waoare their largest cuatomers, and, instead of paying for our coffeo and our other imports with manufac- tured goods, wo puy for them with gold bills on London, which are used to pay for cotton cloth sent to these countrles. Wo have all the natural advantagea for a direct oxchange of our manufactures with Japan rnd China, ‘but maloly pay in gold for what wo buy, which gold is sent lo London to pay for tho .| very kinda of goods in which we should be able to defy nll compotition. The great obstacle in the way of nlargs export trade in American manufactures has beon practically removed, Our policy has ‘boen to manufacturo only for the homo mar- kot, oxcluding nll iden of exportation. As our eapacity to produco waa unlimited, and our consumption confincd to the wants of our own people, we were working only on part time,—ono, two, three, or four ont of every six dnys, and with limited number of hands, when thrae gengs could keep tho machinery cmployed the full twenty-four hours of each day. The idle time, tho un- employed labor, were items in tho cost of production, though they wero of no material beneflt to labor. Tho crush of tho credit system practically broke np this polloy. It deslroyed the homo market by destroying the demand for consumption. It left manu- facturors the alternntive of closing their os- tablishmonts or rejecting the delusive falla- cies of Protection, put their capital, their machinery, and their idlo labor, af work to produce not only for tho homo market, Lnt for overy market where thoy conld finda purchaser, American goods nre now solling at wholesale for less 'tlnan the duty levied on like fabrics of foreign make. The revolution has exploded Protection, The London Z%¥mes finds tho most certain old of tho Amegican manufacturos in the oducated skill of the American labor. In. telligenco ia an important ngont in economi. cal produetion. - Wnges will not purchase in- telligence, and intolligence makes lnabor more valuable, because of its fncreased and supe- rior production. After nll, thereforo, the tuturo of American trade in exports of Amer- {ean manufnctures depends for succesa upon the cultivation of mechanieal skill, of intelli- gence in all branches of productive industry, thus rendering that production profitable. by tha superior economics with which tho great industries are managed aud operated. "I'here is no favoritism in trade, The world will buy where it can got the best and chieapest for its money ; and cach purchase from the U+ ed8tatos includos a salo to this country of what we need. Wo need raw silk, and if we can pay for it in cotton cloth, or iron, or stee), or hides, then wo double {he trade in our own product, to our own profit and ad. vautage, THE KEY-NOTE IN POLITICS. A writer in the last number of the Nation mpnkes on interesting and pertinent applica. tion to the present tone of American politics of o theory advanced by tholato Mr, Baox- nor, viz.: That, as somo leading mind molds the literary style of tho age in which Lie lives, s0 the influence of a leading states- man or a group of tho most conspicuous poli. ficians furnishes the key.note for the general tona of politics. Itisa theory of unconscious imitation which will be found to apply more orless 1o neighborboods, churches, commu. nitles, nations,—to all associations of men with their attention divected to some given matter. The illustration at this particular period of Awerican history is peculiarly striking on accouut of the strong contrast between the general political tone and the re. lations of parties at present as compared with the conditions at tho close of Gen. Guaxt’s Administration, Though President Harzs has been in ofiice culy o few weeks, Lis influence and that of the gentlemen with whom lio bas surrounded himself is alrendy fult throughout the laud, and observable in the spirit of the partisan preas, the public utterances of the subordifate politicians, and tho exchange of politival views in privato conversation. As o rulo, members of both parties aro loss partisan and bitter; the spirit of pacification seems to have been contagious, and President Haves' persiatent efforts have already been rewarded by enthu. siustio support in his own party and quies- cent non-resistance among the masses of his opponents. Bo, too, there is a sentimeat in favor of reforming the abuses of the civil service, aud a cowmplacent assurance of au improvement in this respect, which did not exist before. 1t s tho force of example. ‘fhough the following is too goneral in tone, thero is much truth in its application to special cases that almost every one moy pick out: 1t is safo to predict that, bad Braixs succecded ju hlsattempi to break down ihe policy of the President aud confine him to the system marked out by the managers of the canvass, we sbould to- day have been reading the rawo dlamal pditorial srticles with which we became so palufully familiar during the pust Adminlitration, and abould be brac:ng our uesves Lo endure for snothier four years the aMictiona of the Jast ight; andthe pame men ‘who are now blithely writing enlogles of Harvza® new pollcy wounld bo writing praees of lls wisdom and conrage as dleplayéd In following the footstops of his Wustridus predocessor. We have been ndiculed frequently by forelgners for the intensily of feeling displayed during oue Presidential can- vasscs; but the feeling s mors Justification than we niways caro to admlt, The President and his fmmediate advivers will always give n guiding tone to our purty pontics and to & not unimportant pard of ourscciety, sud his fnfluence will always be distinctly vlalble, therefore, In the formalion of our natlonal character, The ldeals of the rieing generation con never greatly snrpass tho aceepled qualificatiops for the Chief Magiatracy of the Re. publle. 1f there ho true philosophy in this theory of Bioenot's, ns thero certainly appears to be, thon tho American people hava A . bless- ing in the porsons of IlAves, Scuunz, Evants, Devexs, and thelr associatos, snd tho men to whom they will intrust tho detalls of the public servico, thnt nay exort its benign influonco over half o centnry of Ameridan politica, Nor is such an influence likely to confine itsclf to nationnl polities, but it will nleo permento State and loenl politics. We bellove it can already be noticed in tho briet campaign preceding the elly clection to- morrow. Though the nominations have beon mado by political parties, thera seems to be a wider disposition than ever before to consider the filness of candidates nnd the public interest, except among the ward.bum- mers, who always go with their faction. Unless the people of Chicago nre so thor- oughly imbued with placid satisfaction at tho cbange for tho better within the past yeonr ns to bo unmindful of the necessity for voting to maintain it, we hava no doubt that the policy of reforin and retrenchment will be practically approved in tho re-clection of tho present City Gdvernment by a tremen- dous majority. THR RIFLE AND THE TORCH. Notwithstnanding all that has beon pub- lislied as to tho facts and principles invelved in the unacttied condition of certain States in the Bouth, many well-meaning persons fafl to understand the situation, Perhaps they will be aided in thelr comprehension of the practical fesue if it bo presentedina tangible nnd somewhat startling form. When men are sound ssleep, it not unfrequently irequiros ropeated and rough shaking to awaken thewm, The first or second eall suf- fices only to break the sleep and to render thom cross, without causing them to roalize the necessity of rising. And s0o it is with those who have quiet- ly soitled upon o given {heory, and have modo that theory the basis of partisan action in political contests, For a long time they listen {ncredulously to adverso facts and reasonings, receiving litilo or no impresaion, nasured that thoy must be - false, or can bo interproted in harmony with the theory ; and, when others insist to the contrary, thoy are irritated rather than convinced. Here bLas been tho trouble in setlling the Southern complications, as a brief review of tho case will show, ‘Two opposivg theeries liave blinded their respeotive advocater. Ono has been persist- ontly hold at the North, and not without a show of reason, It explained all the diffi. culties at the South in a rendy way, upon the idea of *‘puro cussedness” on tho part of the lato Iebels, who wero supposed to run, inall things, npon two parallel hates, like cars upon o rafl-track,—n hate of the United States Government, as victor over the Con. federacy, and n hate of the negro, aa a former alavo, now on a politieal equality. Tho Bouthern whites were sot down na at heart ‘‘unreconstructed" ltobels, and ns doter- 1ined foes of the welfaro of the freedmen, Honco tho recont difilcultics were assumed to have no real occasion, but to proceed from a determination to reduco the blacks as noar- ly toa condition of servitude n nin as was possible nnder tho Conatitution, and to ne- complish, Ly fraud, viclence, and ovon mur- der, what could not be done by lnwful in- strumontalitics, Of course, such o spirit must be met with stern repression, Forco must bo put down by force, and *‘the Rebels” nust bo tought new lessons of obedience by the instrumentality of Foderal bayonets, 'That is what n Presidont, Lacked by United Statos troops, is for! Thoother {héory hns provailed at the South, and has been equally extreme, though uatu- ral onough in the cireumnstances. It held that thio North was bitterly hostile to tho South, was full of the spirit of vongeanco becauss of tho Rebellion, and was bent upon the humiliation and ruin of tho whites. It taught that negro suffrage was inflicted for this purpose, and with tho additional intent of insuring to tho Republican party a per. manent tenaro of political power; and that tho ndheronta of that party cared nothing if tho Bouth wont to rulu, so far as the interests of the whites wero concerned,, provided the negroes could be led as an ighorant herd to the polls to elect * carpot-baggers” to office and to sustain the oxisting Federal Adminis- tration. Delivored over thus to be plundered Ly corrupt offlvials, under the forms of law, they have beon impelled to intimldation and violenco, in the Btatea where tho majority of the voters wero block, na the only hops of deliveranco, They considered the alternn. tive tu ba virtual revolution, so for as State Government was concernod, or destruction. And, from their polots of viow, the conclu- sion is mot to bo wondered at. We come now to the practical problem, as it confronts President Haves and the Repub- lican party on the ono band sud the South- ern whites on the other. It would seem that the two theories mamed, after belug fully studied and compared, should be allowed 1o cancel each other, Both are extreme, though each may clte corroborative facts”which give & color of justice to thelr respective suppositions, 1f we regard the mabtor slgebraically ss an equation, lot us simplify iv by striking. out | thess two thecries as cquivalent values on the two sides, and then see if we can solvo the problem with the re- waining terms. A speedy solution must be found, or the question will resolve itself into a conflict indicated by tho Leading of this article. On tha one sido will be the rifle, on the other the torch, ‘Ihero is uo doubting the military superoxity of the whites, They have the armus, the skill, the discipline, the intelligence, the ocourage, and the leaders which insure success; whilo the negroes are poorly equipped ns to weapons,’ are little ukilled in their use, are unpracticod in the necessary drill, are iguorant, are timid, sud have no suitable oficers. Iu open con- ftict, then, the blucks wonld stand no chance. Everywhere the long-dominant race would assert its wonted supremacy and sweep the fleld. It is siuply impossible to sustain by negro support a State Goverument to which the whites, as & class, should refuse obedi. ence, defying the execution of the law. But, in case of a persistent feud, this does not sum up the matter; for, if the negro canuot successfully resort to tho rifle, be can carry terror everywhero with the torch. He can act the incendiary, if not the soldier. Thiy mode of revenge is the natural rocourse of an oppressed and timid ruce, and sguinat it there is little dofenss, The opportunity is incegsant and universal, existing wherever there is a houss, aund recurring with the hours of darkness, ‘Thero was little tempta- tion to use the torch in the days of slavery, when the blacks know themesclves to Le slaves by law, were from infancy accustomed to bondage, were often attached to the fami.’ lies on whose plantations they had beenborn, and were totally dependent on thelr re- spective masters for support. But nowa gonoration of young men bas grown np in the enjoyment of liberty, with a senso of manhood, with somo iden of self-reliance, and with a corresponding feoling of rosgnt. mont ogalnat thosa who seek to deprive them of their logal rights. Thoy will not quictly submit to bo robbed of political equality, and, if they are unable to resist openly, they will meot violence with eraft, the riflo with the torch, Hera is the practical fagho, Now, we implore ronsonable and patriotic citizons in both sections to consider what i involved, and to agree upon an adjust mont, ‘The Northerner and the Southerner both must Iny nside their extreme opinions of the parties whom thoy regard ns hostile, Two things are éspocially plain and must be conceded, or the case is hopeless, One is, that tho social pyramid at the SBouth cannot bo kept in nny ono of the Btatea resting ar- tificially on its apex, propped asbund with Fodernl bayonots. In other wordh, intelli- gonee’ ond property must be allowed to rule, whatover the question of numbers may be. Anytling elso is unontural, and works ruin to the. community., The blacks must congent to recognizo this, aud thoir Repub- lican friends must undoceive them, and nd. viso against o black color.line, But on the other hand, the legal equality of the blacks must nlso be unassailed s to their right to od- ucation and to the ballot ; nnd there should ba no further attempt to enforce a white color- line. Tho South must necopt the situation, and bravely and wisely moke tho best of it by welcoming all influences, at home or from the North, which tond to elevate the freed- men aud to make their citizenship n blessing and not a curse, The insulting and mob. bing of teachera and missionaries and tho burniug of schiool-liouses for the colored race must cegso. Only by such measuros of mu- tual concilintion can there be a retum of ponce nnd general prosperity to the South; ond it is to’such principles of procedure that ‘we undorstand President Havzs and his Cab. inet to be pledged. That delegation from the Society of Friends who called upon tho Prosident the other day to inquire ns to his Indian policy presented a truth which it would be wise to think of more than once. After rociting what the Friends had been able to accom- plish among certain tribes of Indiaus, tho delegation stated (hot tho grontest obstacle to n more perfect success of their plans was the continued rejection by the Senato of men appointed as Indian Agonts by the President on the nomination of the dolegation. These Agenla wers good and capable men, conver. saut with tho Indians aud their needs, and competent in every respect to give antisfac. tion. But members of Congress from that soction of tho country had Leld that the ap- pointments belonged to them ns a sort of right, and 8o socured commissions to mon whoso only object was vrofit; and profit meant, nocessarily, an nbuse of tho savoges oand of the trusts confided to the Agents, 'The dologation did not statd this in detail, but it requires no groat amount of insight into the, wny in which these agoncies have been handled to know that such has been the re. sult of tho intermeddling of individuals for personal aggrandizement. ‘Tho Indians un- der Governmont supervision have always beon n “‘bononza" to Agents and thelr friends, and the President will not be likely to have worse evils to deal witfi in his efforts for roforms than those outrages upon the wards of the natlon, 'nm; are outrages whick have lod to violonce in individual cases, and from theso casea to a war that ex. hausts the Government more than the savage, The conduct of the nation in jts relntions with the, Indians'insy bo summoed up in the one word Perfidy ; and that word gets its polson from the nots of the mon, membors of Congress and Indian Agents, who have violated every appeal, silent or otherwise, to tho honor and intogrity of thelr manhodd. Socretqry Scuvnz has promised consideration of the Wants of the red man, a3 indicated by the delegation, aud it is hoped thore will be bappier days for them aud for the philan. thropists doing a noble work among them, OBITUARY. IRINCE AKTOIND BONAPARTE, Tho cable aday. or two sluce reported the death ot kloreuce, Italy, of Prince ANToiNx BoNarante. The deceased was the son of LucieN HoNAvARTE, brother of Naroteox L, und was born {11 1316, Tle was brought up In Italy, in 1532 cawme Lo Awmerlca, and afjerashort visit returned to the FPapal States, from which shortly after he was cjected. Hedid not return until after the revolution of 184S, In 1649 he went to Franée, and was clected to the Assem- bly, In which Lic always voted with the coalitlon of the old monarchical parties. After tho coup d'ttat he did uot make avy advances to the new Emperor. Hu was not placed upon the Nst of Priuces of the tload, holdiug rank ‘at the Court, and lived In retirement during the rest of bis lite, g DARIUS C. JACKSON, Oneof the best-known of Kastern rallroad contractors, Danive C. Jacksox, dledn few days agoof heart discasc at Midaleton, N, Y. His life was a pecullarly busy one, Amony the great public works which he bas voustrucied are the Targe mills at Addisen, Mich.; the rallread from Cloveland to Bandusky; the Miwaukeo & La- Crosse Road; o part of the lang-grant rosd from Madison to Portage; the epstern section of the New York & Oswego Mialdud Road; tho Monmouth County - Agricultural Road, In New Jerscy the third and fourth tracks of tho New York Central, from Clyde to Hochester; aud the Behuylkill Arscual at Philadelphis. He was twice Sherilf of Lenawee County, Michigaa; was Bergeapt-at-Armsin one of the tirst Leglslatures of the Statc; wasa Whig candidate for Btate Benator, sud o Cray Elector, He wus Unlted Btates Marshal for Wiscousin six years,—ap- polnted by Lixcorx und removed by Jouxson, He was alsv oue of the founders of Adriau, oud the owaerof the Milwaukee & Watertown Rallroad, Atthe time of his death Le was 03 years of age. : ——— ' DosX Pi1aTT, the man who advocated the as- sassination of President Harrs, i3 as bitteras £all un the Conservatives of the South who re- fused to lead off Ju another civil war to seat the old “Usufruct” {u the Presidentisl chalr, He telegraphs tho followlug taunting remarks to the Ciucinoatl Znguirer, Bourbon linplacable; I doubt much whether even the Lreaking up of the Triounal wouid have resulted ju a regognition of Lhe peopley wiil as expresscd through the bullod snd the Electoral vole, Thereld uotoaly ignorance througkoutthc Northof the Soutbern sltuution, but thezo i 8 grave mivspprehensivn of the Soath® ern character. The Southern whites—I mesn thuse of (e States that formed the Uonfederacy—ure comn. pletely subjugated, From 8 erce, uncontrollible, fire-cating snirit tAey Azve pussed (0 an abject con difton that ia posisicely putiadle. Utterly rolued Ausuciaily, broken i spirit sud hopelessly trodden upon, they ke e apbmitled tooutrages diticult to bus lieve: From tols they buve emcrged, not, as ally belloved, thtough reeistance, but l{aun he stupldity snd greedof thelr masters. Iad the carpet-Uagiure teon coclent with their political poveranda reasonable amoustof plunder, they £ would to-day bo tn unqnestioned possession of the ) Bonthern Biates, 'They were nof, however, and their infamons ahuse tonched atinst their ownenp. fon In the negroes. 'hnuov{lu:‘: e to be wi + the nogrocs found themaolvs ditlon than nndo{ tha old systom of ery. This camae home to them inthe fallnre of the Freed. tuen’s Bank, that, after gathering in millions from the, savingéof tho poor wretchos, went ta ple withont leaving evena wreck behind, wnd in general robbery of the school fand, The nogroe: sat a storo by the achool system that wasa & super. atition, and ¢ ur found that, lot the fiund be what it might, it all divappeared withoot a school open. **Next to Uon," said l& vaLans not lung since, ‘‘the negro loyes hieold master,' and to tho maater st Inst the negroes turned, In proof of this, one has onl{ to note that in the 1416 elections ‘wharever the yolle were guarded by the army, Dem. oeratic, or rather, oa it Istermed, Conservative, ma. Joritica were the ‘resnit, The Southern white wiil Dot fight, o Let the people do justica to the, rallway cor porations, Agalnst them has been charged the wholeaale purchase of Legislaturcs for purposes inimical to public polley, The testimony of Me, Wittt B. Bexrs, Vico-Presidest of the New York Mutual Life-Tnsurance Company, given last Tucsday to the Insuratce Committco of the New York Loglslaturo, illustrates that fofustice Las been done the rafiroads. 2fr. BaEr3, In an- awer toa question, snald that, the Chomber of Life, Insurauce was a privato assoclation, made up by a dozen or more life-lnsurauce companles, who contributed sonually an amount propor- tioned to the assets, policles, stc,, of cach com- pany, his fastitution befng asscssed last yeir for £3,000, No offlcer but thé Secretary of this con- cern has a salary, The Sccretary recelves $6,000 per year, The witnoss described the object of this Chamber as thet of ‘watching, by agents, those Leglslaturcs lkely to pass measurcs ad- verse to Ufe-Insurance joterests. He could not tell what became of the large “nmounts of money contributed to the exchequer of this Chamber. The prevention of inimical leglsta. tion is alwaysan cxpensiye Job, 50 that there 13 no need to puszle one's head ovér a depletion of finances when tho purpose of tho existenco of thils association ls so plain. In plain Evglish, tho Chnmber of Life Insurance buys leglslators when It {s niccessary, Perbops it may go highor, Concerns with an azgregate capltal of at'least $130,000,000 wonld not hesitate ‘Tong over tha cost of mcasures for self-presorvation. The public can thank Mr. Bezds for this glimpse of reality through his storcopticon. Small proofs of venality arc thaoklully received, and “honors mnay b hield to be oasy as between ratlway aud Ufe-dnsurance corporationd, ° ¥ ————— The Now Orlesns Republican (PACKAnD's orman) forebodes no good to tho carpet-baggers from the viait of the Conimissloners apoolnted by the President, It tuinks they will bo able to maka no arrangement which will change tha present dead-lock. And then it goos ou to'say: There 11 oo thing n mrl{ of_Ropublican tlaltors may do with good elect. It mny-oxamino the Eol icy and parsonnel of the Jtepublican party in ouleiaua. It may advise the Fruuldent how'the Republican party may be strengthened by the ap. Iw ntment uf men wbove all wuspicion of fraud, dentided with Jocal inicrests, und capable, Ly talents and character, 1o meot the Democracy in any sort of competition or combat, 1t may remind tho Preeident that tho founders **meant that pub. Iic oflicers abould owe thelr whole servico tu tho Government and to the people,” and recominend to him not to nlgpolnl men to oftice nor to allow thom to retain ollice who will sublet their datics to + sobordinates and draw tho revennes of a splendid absenteelsm from the very life-blood of the party upon whose mistaken bunevolenco they sr sube siating. It atiould vecur to the Commission that if men v and Invest their fortunes fu one place and hold oflice in another, 1t would bo better fogive them oflice where Lliey prefesto Uve,: It will ap- pear, morcover, to tho Commisslon that uscleds and nomadic parifsans who miay press their de- e may bo provided for clsowbero by the Natlonal Republican Adminlstratlon, Kvery posi. tion here can be bastowed npon a permauncat clti~ xen nseful to the Republican porty. There s no reason and no right that the Loulsiana Hepubllcans should hve to carry all this welght uf uselesy and even injurlous appoiutmente, and it ls reapectfully suggested that they be ottioned 1n the whole parly, and not soddied oe'an exclusive burden upoti Loulsiuna, T ——— ‘fhoro was astormy debate in the Britlsh Parliament about tha defective congineering in the stcam uavy, whereby several costly iron- clnds had been lost, and others were continue ally breaking down. One speaker sald the flect Tizxo, M, I, after inatituting & compartron e the manayemont of the navy and of the o Fealusular and Oricofal, aafavorsble. 10 the Havy, concladod by oda Htate for the Snrd of Admiralty, snd the other calling on the Uovernmant 10 appoint to the ofices was nothing but a collection of crippless ‘ M, 'atn coupanics, such as the Cunard and the moving two tesulutions, recummending the subatitution of & Secrelaty of of Controller of the Navy snd Superintendents of Dockyards ho b te o, persons W ave prac knowledge of the dutles they have to dischazge. Ar. Rrzp dwelt on the vast changes which bave been miade lately In the art of bullding ships-of-war, ond conteuded that thoss who wero zesponsible for the mavagequent of the navy had not recogulzed aud actod up 80 these: changes; As illustrations of this he painted to’ the fact that, whilo thero were seven Admirals at the Admiralty drawing $05,000 8 yesr, thi o1 Eo«'»’“ Euglueer 1n the office, $4,500. Ile mentfoned, too, that the Lad 1o more otiicors than the Neweastle and lustanced the ineilectual proviel for naval educution. "Under the present despalrod of the changea nocessary to g navy up to s level wilh wodern requltemonts, and he ¥aw no better way of remedying the. prescut unsatlsfactory conditfon of naval adminlitrativa than by replacing the Board of Admiralty by a %er« retary of Siate, who would really be rusponsible, with oticiala under bl responiible for the won- nuug, dlacipling, construction, Anauce, etc., of the Ay vy, ———— Lord CARNARYOX recently tnade o statoment In the House of Lords that the money advanced to Fijl by the Imperis! CGoveroment has not been wasted, os alloged, and that the mouvexa- tion of the {alauds to Great DBritaln had &o far proved ot advantage that kiduapplog bas been almost entiroly suppressed throughout™ Polyne- sin. Io tho course of the discussion [t was Urought out that there s o bold buccaucer aflont {n the South Seas who for fftcen years Las been cugaged In piracy and kidnapplog, asd that the fiun.;lllh squaaron las not yet beon abls to catclt . The Fall Mall Budget says b less the man Is caught withla tho uext fuw wontbs, be may yet find b's way to Ban Frau- clsco and dle a respected citizen of the United States.” In cousideration of what the Engllih Government Las accowplisbed for the unfor- tunate Fijf Islanders in the way of wisslonary- measles sod the future possibilities of the epl- demle, tho bucancer’s operations are of very lit- tle couscquence, as there will speedily be no vus left to be kidoapped. et e The Loufsiana Commission, ss fually consth tuted, conslsts of Judge Cianres B, Lawnxxce *fl'p Tlinole Kx-Uor. J. C. Daowx (Dem,), eados. Ex- ournlt.l.luu.n‘ n{. , Conneaticat, G oux M. IlarLan (lep), Kentucky. Warns MacVzaun (Hep.), Pennsyivania, All of thess, except Gov, Brown, of Tennes sev, arc Republicans; but, at the same time, they are all supporicrs of the President’s SBouth: ern policy of home-rule and conciliation, and none of them are frisndly or favorable to a cou- tinuation of carpet-baggery upheld by Federl soldiers, especially as the sald carpet-bagger officeholders furniab no protection to the colored peoplu whovote them Into ottice. If the carpet- baggers, when jn oflice aud Ln control of Southera Btates, had protected the blacks, thero would be atrong reasons for prolecting them: u‘dnn White-Livesssaulty; but they bavenever brought to justiec or punished the ssaailants oud per secutors of the Llacks, and bave not prevented the persecution. Theu what they good for! et Thereis a very remarkable movement golog on fu Ircland fn favorof cloaing the whisky shops on Suaday, A petition from the city of Dublin has béen sent to Psrltument, & mile o leogth, s0d bearing 60,000 slguatures, Meetiogé sre frequently beld to protest sgalost the ex- emption of large towns frum the operativn of the proposed law. A careful house-to-houss canvass of nlncteen towns has sbown'tbat 1o them 100,000 persons voted for Sundey closlog sud ouly 11,831 agulost It. The Lill 4s Mkely to pass at this sesslon of Parligment. o e About oae-tAird of every dollarof taxation ralsed 10 1be City of Cleveland is expended w paylog tue interest of the cl:y.dlh 'l«?:'laml Pluln-Dealer. This makes Cleveland 8 very desirable ¢ty In which to bave your eueiules live. There is nothiog will est up s man's fortune quickor thau taxes. Withs third of them sbsorbed by interest on municipal debt, and with s debt coa- atsutly locressing, and nearly $0,000,000, vver half a million being added during the year, ooe could not Wik & worse fate to anadr I ] | ! ) | | | ' | '